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1135, Richard fitz Urse witnessed a charter of King Stephen to
Geoffrey de Mandeville. (S) Sinclairs of England, 1887, P161.

4/1136, King Stephen’s Charter of Liberties issued at
Winchester. Geoffrey de Mandeville one of the many barons attending the great
council. [There were rumors spread around about this time that King Stephen had
died.]

1136, Geoffrey de Mandeville founded the Benedictine priory of Saffron
Walden, Essex. (S) History – Abbey of St. Alban, Newcome, 1793, P504.

1136-37, King Stephen wintered in southeast England. At Westminster,
King Stephen heard a court case involving the priory of Holy Trinity, London
versus Hasculf de Tany, castellan of the Tower of London. Queen Mathilde,
William Martel the steward, Robert de Courcy, Aubrey de Vere and Geoffrey de
Mandeville where among those present. Hasculf de Tany lost the case to the
priory.

1137, Geoffrey appointed castellan of the Tower of London. (S)
King Stephen, Matthew, 2002, P178.

12/1137, Payne de Beauchamp held out in a long siege of the
castle of Bedford by King Stephen. (S) House of Goldsborough, Goldsborough, 2011,
P177.

6-8/1140, Geoffrey made 1st Earl of Essex by King
Stephen: “Stephen, King of the English … I have made Geoffrey de Mandeville,
Earl of the County of Essex, hereditarily, …”. [This charter is the most
ancient of the creation of an earldom in existance.] (S) Peerage Law in
England, Palmer, 1907, P241.

8/3/1140, Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex, and Waler of
Meulan 2 of 5 counts that witnessed Queen Mathilde’s foundation of a new
Savignac house at Coggeshall.

2/2/1141, King Stephen captured at the battle of Lincoln.

4/7/1141 at Winchester, Empress
Matilda acknowledged as “Lady of
England and Normandy” by Bishop Henry.

6/1141, Geoffrey changed sides and received a new Earl charter
from Empress Matilda; and appointed hereditary Justice and Sheriff of London,
Middlesex, Essex and Hertfordshire; and Constable of the Tower of London.

7/1141 at Oxford, Baldwin de Redvers 1 of 5 of comital rank
that were guarantees for an agreement involving Queen Matilda, Geoffrey de
Mandeville and Aubrey de Vere. [Empress Matilda: “I make this agreement … my lord
the count of Anjou nor myself nor our sons will make any peace or concord with
the burgesses of London, unless it be with the permission and agreement of the
said Earl Geoffrey, for they are his mortal enemies.”] (S) King Stephen’s
Reign, Dalton, 2008, P66. [Geoffrey insisted that the charters of the Empress be
taken to Normandy and be ratified by her son and husband.]

9/14/1141, Empress Matilda’s forces defeated at the battle of
Winchester by forces led by King Stephen’s wife Mathilde of Boulogne. Empress
Matilda’s brother Robert, earl of Gloucester, was captured. Queen Mathilde pursued
Geoffrey de Mandeville into Hertfordshire where he attempted to capture
Stortford castle.

11/1/1141, King Stephen exchanged by Empress Matilda for
Robert, earl of Gloucester.

12/25/1141, Robert de Ferrers attended King Stephen’s Christmas
court where he witnessed the royal charter to Geoffrey de Mandeville. (S) Reign
of King Stephen, Crouch, 2000.

9/1142, King Stephen besieged Empress Matilda at Oxford [her
brother Robert, earl of Gloucester, was out of the country.]

1142, Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex, and Gilbert de
Clare sent against Ely and the castle of Aldreth to expel the supporters of
Bishop Nigel. (S) The Norfolk Circuit, Tymms, 1833, P81.

12/1142, Empress Matilda escaped Oxford castle. [Soon after,
the Empress’ brother Robert returned to England with her son Henry. They may
have returned with the charters to Geoffrey approved by her husband and son.]

1/1143 at Oxford, King Stephen, having captured the city,
confirmed grant of Edward the Confessor, previously confirmed by William the
Conqueror and King Henry I to the monks of Abingdon. Geoffrey de Mandeville,
earl of Essex, signed the confirmation 1st.

9/29/1143, King Stephen held court at St. Albans, ordering the
arrest of Earl Geoffrey de Mandeville for supporting Empress Matilda.

10/1143, Geoffrey captured by William, earl of Surrey. He bought
his freedom by surrendering the Tower, and Walden and Pleshy castles.

9/14/1144, Geoffrey, 1st Earl of Essex, died; shot
with an arrow while attacking Burwell Castle; [1163] buried in Temple Church,
Holborn. [Geoffrey was under excommunication, so his body could not initially be
buried in a church.]

[–––Payne & Rohesia–––]

In Essex, Rohesia married 2nd Payne de Beauchamp.

1145, King Stephen defeated Empress Matilda’s forces at the
battle of Faringdon.

Ricardus de Bellocampo donated ‘ecclesiam de Lamerseia’ to
Colne Priory, Essex, with the consent of ‘Adelinæ uxoris meæ’, witnessed by ‘Pagano
de Bellocampo, Stephano et Waltero de Bellocampo’.

6/1148, Empress Matilda returned to Normandy, never returning
to England.

1150, Paganus de Bellocampo et uxor eius Rohaisa comitissa,
founded Chicksand priory, for the soul of ‘Simonis de Bellocampo’.

1166, Geoffrey de Mandeville of Essex, held 110 knights’ fees
in England and Wales. (S) War, Government and Aristocracy in the British Isles,
Given-Wilson, 2008, P15. [Assessed on the aid of marrying the King’s daughter.]

10/21/1166, Geoffrey de Mandeville, earl of Essex, died at
Chester while leading forces with Richard de Luci in an expedition against
Wales; buried in Chicksand Convent.

iv. Ernulf de Mandeville, born 1140 in Highworth, Wiltshire,
England.

~1160, Ernulf married Alice Doyly.

Bef. 4/1178 Ernulf died.

v. Robert de
Mandeville, born 1143.

1189, Robert died.

vi. William de Mandeville, born 1144.

1166, William, 3rd Earl of Essex.

7/1175, Thomas Basset with the King and Prince Henry at a
council at Woodstock concerning ecclesiastical vacancies. William de
Mandeville, was also at this council.

1177–1178, William on a crusade with Philip, duke of Flanders.

1180 in Pleshy Castle, Essex, William married Hawise de
Gros and became Earl of Aumale.

1185, William married Christina, d/o Robert FitzWalter.

7/6/1189, William was with King Henry II when he died at
Chinon, France. He was named joint-Justiciar for Henry’s son Richard I.

11/24/1190, William died in Normandy, France; buried in
Shouldham Priory, Albermarle, France.

Child of Payne and Rohesia:i. Simon de Beauchamp (19989836), born 1145 in England.

Charter founding Newenham priory: Paganus de Bello-campo as its
founder, his wife Roisia, and their son Simon de Bello-campo, Lord of Bedford.

“Simon de Bello Campo, sonne to Paganus and Rohisia, confirmid
and performid the acte of his mother. He Lyith afore the high altare of S.
Paules Chirch in Bedeford.”